Your R System Images - March 2025

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Only RF said:
Torre dos Clerigos tower, Porto, Portugal. A bit of an overcast day so we just wandered around. I took this shot about a block from our hotel. I like the rooftops. Porto is in the top 5 of our favourite cities.

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Palacio da Bolsa, Porto, Portugal. I used to do a lot more of this type of shooting. Phil inspired me to do a little more.

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Fancy sky light.

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When we were in Porto in 2020 we walked past this church every day. It was one of our landmarks.

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Hi Only RF,

A series of of eye-catching shots, each having very pleasing qualities - images # 2 and 3 are our favourites (but if pushed for top spot we'd choose #3).

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
Bucolic Old Sir Henry said:
A cold southerly blew through today with some welcome rain, but yesterday was warm with butterflies...

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A Yellow admiral or Kahukōwhai (Vanessa itea).

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Cabbage white or Pepe ma (Pieris rapae).

Everything seems to like feeding on the massed pink flowerhead of the succulents around the garden...

If we get another warm day soon, I intend to try a shot of the clouds of cabbage whites I've seen over the fields of kale planted as winter fodder for sheep and cattle.
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Hi Gareth,

Terrific captures, with pleasing colours and the perfect balance between focus and blur.


(After an all too short false-spring, we're back to icy cold winds blowing once again... 🥶 ).

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
Arbarthisti said:
Another of my favourite birds, Goldfinch appreciating some warmer weather.
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Hi Nick,

A terrific capture of a beautiful creature. Wonderful colours, detail and pose, with that all important touch of eye pop.

(Hopefully it enjoyed the warm spell - we appear to have slipped back in time once again. Hopefully not for long... 🤞).


Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
MSH411 said:
We must have a decent amount of ground squirrels living in the brush behind our house. The yote on the right found breakfast.

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Hi Marc,

That's quite a view you've got there, with beautiful pastel colours and two striking creatures - though we presume the squirrel is less impressed... :cool:

An astonishing scene to behold - well caught (no pun intended).

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
TwoWheeler said:
I know what you're thinking - "Oh, this guy and his ice images again...." :rolleyes: but hey, I have to work with what I have...!
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Hi TwoWheeler,

You can keep these coming for as long as you like - they remind us it's not all that cold here after all... :D

Also on the plus side, we love water - frozen, flowing or reflecting and this shot has it all. Beautifully controlled and presented too.

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
Hali said:
One of my first images with the new 200-800
I am pretty happy with the handling and the sharpness. Not sure why I was at 5000thof a sec but it worked. ISO was 3200, noise reduction with DxO prime raw processed in LR, PS with TK9 and nik color efex pro

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Hi Hali,

Congratulations on your new tech!

A glorious shot of a wonderful creature - absolutely wonderful lighting and colours, bags of pleasing detail with the perfect subject pose and eye-pop.

Beautifully captured and presented - thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
We're back from our final visit to Chester Zoo for the winter Frank-Fest season (a few shots will appear here once Phil unburies himself from the raw files).

Once again, a warm 'Thank You' to everyone who has contributed to the thread with images and comments in our absence - all much appreciated... :)


A few purely ‘for fun’ examples of creatively aging an image taken in 2024 at Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire, England. (Phil's shot and edit). Occasionally we enjoy taking a modern digital tech shot and having a go at 'destroying it'. A key objective was to complete each individual edit over a coffee and cookie break.

Software used for original 'straight' edit: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. Other software (kind-of) detailed below.

Note: This is not intended to be a masterclass in wrecking otherwise fine digital images, or in accurately emulating flawed kit and age-worn film images, but it was fun (and that was the aim - plus, the coffee and Karen's cookies were very nice!).

Phil and Karen


1. As shot - raw file Imported to LrC. (Unedited/ converted to jpg to allow for upload here).

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2. Original 'Straight' Edit.

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3. Original 'Phil's Play Time' Edit. (Basically a bunch of things thrown at it from DxO Nik Collection)...

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4. Nik Collection Analog Efex...

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5. DxO FilmPack...

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6. Topaz Labs Studio 2...

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PKM-UK said:
We're back from our final visit to Chester Zoo for the winter Frank-Fest season (a few shots will appear here once Phil unburies himself from the raw files).

Once again, a warm 'Thank You' to everyone who has contributed to the thread with images and comments in our absence - all much appreciated... :)


A few purely ‘for fun’ examples of creatively aging an image taken in 2024 at Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire, England. (Phil's shot and edit). Occasionally we enjoy taking a modern digital tech shot and having a go at 'destroying it'. A key objective was to complete each individual edit over a coffee and cookie break.

Software used for original 'straight' edit: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. Other software (kind-of) detailed below.

Note: This is not intended to be a masterclass in wrecking otherwise fine digital images, or in accurately emulating flawed kit and age-worn film images, but it was fun (and that was the aim - plus, the coffee and Karen's cookies were very nice!).

Phil and Karen


1. As shot - raw file Imported to LrC. (Unedited/ converted to jpg to allow for upload here).

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2. Original 'Straight' Edit.

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3. Original 'Phil's Play Time' Edit. (Basically a bunch of things thrown at it from DxO Nik Collection)...

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4. Nik Collection Analog Efex...

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5. DxO FilmPack...

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6. Topaz Labs Studio 2...

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PKM-UK said:
Wow Karen and Phil!!! I really like all the iterations of this image. Each one has its own story its telling and mood. It’s a great series and shows so many of the possibilities that can be teased out of an image! Of course the original sooc image was a great starting place as well!
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Bucolic Old Sir Henry said:
One more yellow admiral. This one was kind enough to pose.

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Sharp as a sharp thing.
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Hi Gareth,

The subject pose, setting and glorious colours combine to make this a very eye-catching, almost mesmeric, composition.

Well seen and caught - and thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
Wow Karen and Phil!!! I really like all the iterations of this image. Each one has its own story its telling and mood. It’s a great series and shows so many of the possibilities that can be teased out of an image! Of course the original sooc image was a great starting place as well!

Hi Hali,

Cheers - much appreciated! :)

This creative slant provides a fun break from my normal workflow.

(Sometimes, we take images of old photographs and try to reverse, or at least soften, the aging process - it's equally challenging and just as much fun).

Phil
 
I spent all day in the rainy Sierra foothills yesterday. A day traveling with the camera is never disappointing, but I was disappointed when I reviewed the results today: four marginal photos out of some 300 presses of the shutter button. It was still an exciting day, though, with flooded dirt roads, snow and chain controls, numerous abandoned structures, and a newfound angle on the Preston School of Industry in Ione, California. (Now abandoned, Preston was a youth prison where country music star Merle Haggard was once incarcerated.)

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That's not too bad. Some days the photos illude us. I had my camera out today and like so many other days, I just took it for a ride. :( :(
 
NGauger101010 said:
That's not too bad. Some days the photos illude us. I had my camera out today and like so many other days, I just took it for a ride. :( :(
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Yup. Spent a couple hours in the woods with the Hellbeast today and the camera never came out of the bag.

I looked at a crocus on the lawn and thought about shooting it and posting it under the headline “This might mean no more ice shots from me for a while” - does that count?
 
TwoWheeler said:
Yup. Spent a couple hours in the woods with the Hellbeast today and the camera never came out of the bag.

I looked at a crocus on the lawn and thought about shooting it and posting it under the headline “This might mean no more ice shots from me for a while” - does that count?
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Absolutely!! Yes! I'm waiting for the migratory birds to return North in the next few weeks so I can get a few pictures :) :)
 
I went down to The Washington Monument early Friday Morning to try and get the Lunar Eclipse over the monument from below. Cloud cover hurt the opportunity to get a clean image as I waited for small gaps in the cloud bank. 3200 ISO was painful as well as a slower shutter speed with the 100-500 L lens I brought with me. Might have done better with my 2003 EF 500 L f4. Here is at best a documentation capture from DC.


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StevenAunan said:
I spent all day in the rainy Sierra foothills yesterday. A day traveling with the camera is never disappointing, but I was disappointed when I reviewed the results today: four marginal photos out of some 300 presses of the shutter button. It was still an exciting day, though, with flooded dirt roads, snow and chain controls, numerous abandoned structures, and a newfound angle on the Preston School of Industry in Ione, California. (Now abandoned, Preston was a youth prison where country music star Merle Haggard was once incarcerated.)

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Hi Steven,

We feel your pain - sometimes the intangible things we set off hoping to find remain stubbornly elusive.

However you've go to be there to capture them when they do arise - and you've come back with some very intriguing shots here - the school is a real gem (and the shed looks like something Phil would build... :D ).

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
AOC said:
I went down to The Washington Monument early Friday Morning to try and get the Lunar Eclipse over the monument from below. Cloud cover hurt the opportunity to get a clean image as I waited for small gaps in the cloud bank. 3200 ISO was painful as well as a slower shutter speed with the 100-500 L lens I brought with me. Might have done better with my 2003 EF 500 L f4. Here is at best a documentation capture from DC.


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Hi Art,

A wonderful composition.

You fared much better than we did (every celestial event in memory seems to have been met here with 100% cloud cover - Friday being another classic).


Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
On mission to shoot an old mill/factory building by a river, I noticed the smokestack of another facilty nearby. It was a deceptively beautiful day, bright and sunny but cold after a few minutes walking around. All shots were hand held.
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VanDyck said:
On mission to shoot an old mill/factory building by a river, I noticed the smokestack of another facilty nearby. It was a deceptively beautiful day, bright and sunny but cold after a few minutes walking around. All shots were hand held.
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Hi Walter,

We would imagine these buildings have witnessed a treasure of history and hold many memories - these images certainly stir the imagination.

All beautifully controlled, the B&W's are our favourites (no surprise there!) - with that awe-inspiring stack being an extremely impressive sight.

Thank you for sharing... 🙂

P&K
 
AOC said:
I went down to The Washington Monument early Friday Morning to try and get the Lunar Eclipse over the monument from below. Cloud cover hurt the opportunity to get a clean image as I waited for small gaps in the cloud bank. 3200 ISO was painful as well as a slower shutter speed with the 100-500 L lens I brought with me. Might have done better with my 2003 EF 500 L f4. Here is at best a documentation capture from DC.


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StevenAunan said:
I spent all day in the rainy Sierra foothills yesterday. A day traveling with the camera is never disappointing, but I was disappointed when I reviewed the results today: four marginal photos out of some 300 presses of the shutter button. It was still an exciting day, though, with flooded dirt roads, snow and chain controls, numerous abandoned structures, and a newfound angle on the Preston School of Industry in Ione, California. (Now abandoned, Preston was a youth prison where country music star Merle Haggard was once incarcerated.)

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These aren’t bad in the least, my favorite is the tres in the snow. But it’s like what you said- any day out with the camera is a good day! At least it wasn’t a day where you just trashed the entire folder of images!
 

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